Annotation:Old Blind Sow She Stole the Middlins
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OLD BLIND SOW, SHE STOLE THE MIDDLINS. AKA and see "Paddy O'Meaghan's Reel." Old-Time, Breakdown. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AA'BB. Some similarities with the British Isles tunes "Navvie on the Line" and "London Hornpipe (1)." See also "Montreal Hornpipe."
Source for notated version: John Summers (Indiana) [Phillips].
Printed sources: Phillips (Traditional American Fiddle Tunes, vol. 1), 1994; p. 168.
Recorded sources: Rounder 0194, John W. Summers - "Indiana Fiddler" (1984).
See also listing at:
Jane Keefer's Folk Music Index: An Index to Recorded Sources [1]
Hear the tune played on youtube.com [2] [3]
See Mark Wardenburg's standard notation transcription [4]